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Troops from 7 Force Protection Wing, Royal Air Force Regiment 15 and 34 Squadron, stand in their 'stick' waiting for the very final flight out of Camp Bastion

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CH-53E and Chinook helicopters with U.S. Marines take off from Camp Bastion in Helmand province on Monday

Four-hundred and fifty-three men and women lost their lives in the ferocious battle to liberate the Afghan province of Helmand.